Stories from Friday, January 29, 2016

Barbara Jean Parker, 82, of Liberty, Mo., passed away Jan. 24, 2016 at St. Luke's Hospice. Visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 at Hidden Valley Funeral Home, Kearney, Mo. Memorial service will follow at 3 p.m. at the funeral home...

Icy conditions are forcing the City of Uniontown to re-bid its community storm shelter project. Some contractors from Fort Scott and Humboldt had packets in hand to come to the bid opening Jan. 19, but the dangerous road conditions prevented them getting to Uniontown City Hall...

The Bourbon County Sheriff's Office is investigating a reported hit-and-run injury accident that took place early Thursday morning on Jayhawk Road south of Fort Scott. The incident involved an unknown vehicle striking a man on a bicycle and then fleeing the scene, according to a news release from the BCSO. Bourbon County Sheriff Bill Martin said emergency responders received a call on the incident about 5:40 a.m. Thursday...

In an effort to make government more accessible on a local level, Lynn Jenkins, the U.S. Representative for Kansas' second congressional district, hosted a Coffee with Your Congresswoman Thursday morning at Fort Scott City Hall. Jenkins is a member of the Republican Party and has been in office since 2009...

EL DORADO SPRINGS, Mo. -- Fort Scott High School's junior varsity boys' basketball team won a semifinal game in the El Dorado Springs Tournament here Wednesday night , beating Clinton, Mo., 59-19. Brady Tourillott led the Tigers with 22 points. Jesse Lawrence added 13...

MOUND CITY -- Uniontown's boys fell to Jayhawk-Linn here Tuesday night, 34-31, in Three Rivers League play. Garrett Elder led the Eagles with 14 points in the loss, which dropped the Eagles to 1-2 in the TRL and 7-6 overall. Jayhawk-Linn improved to 2-0, 6-5. The Jayhawks completed a season sweep, also beating the Eagles on Jan. 5 at Uniontown...

The Fort Scott High School ninth grade girls' basketball team is off to an 8-3 start, having dispatched Girard, Pittsburg, Anderson County, Frontenac twice, Iola twice and Nevada. The team's three losses, all close, came to Chanute, Labette County, and the Chanute junior varsity...

No. 1 Johnson County rolled past Fort Scott Community College's women here Wednesday night, 99-64, in Jayhawk Conference-Division II play. The Cavaliers held Fort Scott's Kamiron Luptak to 7 points on the night. She came into the game as the second-leading scorer in the division, averaging 19.1 points per game. This was just the third time this season that Luptak has been held to less than 10 points this season...

Fort Scott Community College's men showed a deeper bench than Johnson County Wednesday night as the Greyhounds upset the No. 4-ranked Cavaliers, 93-83, in Jayhawk Conference-Division II play at Arnold Arena. Fort Scott's bench scored 26 points to just 9 for Johnson County. All of the Cavaliers' bench points came from one player, Chris Edwards. This proved a major issue for Johnson late in the game when three starters fouled out...